{"product_id":"sonnet-to-an-embryo-dawn-apiarist-9798291647288","title":"Sonnet to an embryo: poems for pregnancy loss","description":"\"Sonnet to an embryo\" is not simply a book. It is a soft lament, a whispered prayer, a tribute in verse to lives that existed quietly, briefly, and deeply. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten after the loss of four pregnancies, this collection emerges not from a place of closure, but from the ongoing echo of grief, from the silent places where no answers live. These poems do not try to explain loss or to decorate pain. They simply offer it a voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach poem carries the imprint of a love too vast to be undone by time, too quiet to be recognized by most, and too sacred to be forgotten. \u003ci\u003eThis is a book for the mothers no one sees, for the babies no one met, for the ache that lives where names and birthdays never formed.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt wasn't really\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"It wasn't really a baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eit was just centimeters\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyes, it was a whole world\u003cbr\u003ethat might have changed the world\u003cbr\u003eat least my world \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"It wasn't really a pregnancy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eyou were pregnant for some weeks only\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyes, I was carrying\u003cbr\u003ea universe inside of me\u003cbr\u003ejust for weeks\u003cbr\u003ethat changed my DNA forever \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"You weren't really a mother\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyes, I was a pseudo-mother\u003cbr\u003ewith pseudo-children\u003cbr\u003eyes, four of them\u003cbr\u003eand maybe from four I can make one whole\u003cbr\u003eto count as a mother that has lost a baby \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sonnets within are not bound by traditional form, but by emotional honesty. They wander through the landscapes of memory, longing, silence, and surrender. \u003cb\u003eThey ask questions no one dares to answer.\u003c\/b\u003e They sit in the stillness that follows heartbreak, and somehow, in that stillness, they offer something resembling peace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is not about moving on. \u003cb\u003eIt is about staying present with what is real.\u003c\/b\u003e It is about holding the invisible and saying, \"This mattered.\" It is about remembering in a world that so often forgets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sonnet to an embryo\" is the second volume in the \"To an embryo\" collection, and though born from personal grief, it belongs to every mother who ever loved beyond the physical, beyond time, beyond comprehension. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you have ever felt alone in your mourning, these pages may keep you company. If you have ever wondered whether your grief is valid, let these poems tell you: it is. \u003cb\u003eIt always was.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dawn Apiarist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798291647288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Dawn Apiarist","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49169722507519,"sku":"9798291647288","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sonnet-to-an-embryo-dawn-apiarist-9798291647288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}